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Attacks on the UAE: 'A new chapter has begun in the Yemen conflict'

A partial view of the indistrial Msaffah district in Abu Dhabi, the capital of The United Arab Emirates, January 17, 2022. © AFP (illustration)

One week after a first attack on the United Arab Emirates, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels fired ballistic missiles at Abu Dhabi and Dubai on Monday. The attacks mark a new chapter in the crisis that has engulfed Yemen, according to Marc Goutalier, a geostrategy consultant and Middle East specialist.

The UAE intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by Houthi rebels on Monday, just one week after the group carried out a deadly drone attack on the capital Abu Dhabi. The Houthi rebels, a predominantly Shiite Iran-backed militia, currently controls the Yemeni capital of Sanaa, located just 1,500 kilometres (932 miles) from Abu Dhabi.

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